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The 1840–41 Royal Engineers maps of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria was an early scientific mapping of Palestine (including a detailed mapping of Jerusalem), Lebanon and Syria. It represented the second modern, triangulation-based attempt at surveying Palestine, following the French Carte de l'Égypte .
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'Palestine' 1100s: Ashburnham Libri map: unknown: Europe’s oldest surviving sheet map after the ninth-century Plan of Saint Gall. [26] no regional name shown: 1100s: Tournai map: unknown: 12th century copy of a map of Asia may which accompanied a manuscript of De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraeorum, a 4th-5th century work of Jerome. [27] no ...
The maps of Palestine were first published in 1841 to accompany the first edition of Biblical Researches in Palestine, and published again in 1856 to accompany the second edition. [2] It has been described as the most important element of Robinson's publication: "Perhaps, Robinson’s most important accomplishment, however, was the drawing of ...
In 1946, the country gained independence and became officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. [c] The country captured and annexed the West Bank during the 1948 Palestine war until it was occupied by Israel in 1967. Jordan renounced its claim to the territory to the Palestinians in 1988 and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.
1:250,000 administrative maps (see here): the 1:250,000 administrative map, in three sheets, followed the 1:100,000 map "Palestine Index to Villages & Settlements" (see here), an administrative map without relief, usually on a single-sheet 1:250,000 scale, was often used as a base for overprinted thematic maps. [27]
The Egyptian geographical term Retjenu is traditionally identified as an area covering Sinai and Canaan south of Lebanon, [5] with the regions of Amurru and Apu to the north. [6] As such, parts of Canaan and southwestern Syria became tributary to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt before the Late Bronze Age collapse .
The discussions continued until 14 May 1922, when the U.S. government announced the terms of an agreement with the United Kingdom about the Palestine mandate. [148] [149] The terms included a stipulation that "consent of the United States shall be obtained before any alteration is made in the text of the mandate".